Taiji Tonoyama

Taiji Tonoyama (殿山泰司, Tonoyama Taiji, 1915–1989) was a Japanese character actor who made many appearances in films and on television from 1939 to 1989. He was a close friend of Kaneto Shindo and one of his regular cast members. He was also an essayist. In 1950 he helped form the film company Kindai Eiga Kyokai with Shindo and Kōzaburō Yoshimura.

Cast

祭りだお化けだ全員集合！！

The Naked Island

Shachō to onna tenin

Ishimatsu of the Forest

Shop Proprietor

Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha

King of Pornography

The Ballad of Narayama

Vengeance Is Mine

Tanejiro Shibata

Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha

The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats

Violence at Noon

School director

The Insect Woman

Strong Women, Weak Men

Today is Payday

President of Akabane Construction

Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer

Sixteen years old

大吉ぼんのう鏡

Empire of Passion

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

My Second Brother

Fruits of Passion

Dynamite Doctor

Koina no Ginpei

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

Evil Spirits of Japan

Children of Hiroshima

Owner of a ship

Golden Partners

Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya

Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby

Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

Man on Festival Boat

Attack at Daylight

Three Resurrected Drunkards

快傑耶茶坊

Red Light District: Gonna Get Out

Kofukuya's Owner

Hell Riders in Kyoto

The Castle of Sand

Publican at Ebisu

Who's the Real Killer

Whistling in the morning

Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene

Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa

Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama

Sex Show Manager

One Passed Through Hell

Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment

Kinetarô Kitamura

Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2

Housewife's Experience: Tenement

A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse

Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)

Yoshizo Kawamura

Sisters of Nishijin

Love's Family Tree

Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow

A Ghost Love Story of Japan

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting

The House of the Sleeping Virgins

Thousand Cranes

Birth of a Jazz Maiden

Senkichi Hanamura

War and Flowers

Song of a Traveller

限りなき情熱

In the Realm of the Senses

Child of the Sun

Captive's Island

Akitsu Hot Springs

The Bored Samurai

Legend of the Eight Samurai

Dear Summer Sister

Takuzo Sakurada

Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

Nuclear Gypsies

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha

Kumakichi Takeda

The Little Runaway

Policeman's Diary

Patrolman Kuramochi

Underwater Murder

The Last Swordsman

Nurse's Husband

Four Hours of Terror

Evil Spirits in the Darkness

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

Beyond the Green Hills

Ramen shop owner

An Innocent Witch

Tomorrow Evening

River of Fireflies

Story of a Beloved Wife

Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura

Tree Without Leaves

The Kingpin of Fair Ladies

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

A Story from Echigo

Love Lost in Tears

Tokyo no Kodoku

Street of Violence

A Woman’s Road

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3

The Ball at the Anjo House

Case of the Disjointed Murder

Evening Primrose

Chibusa o daku musume tachi

The Shadow of Fear

Season of Farewell

Wind, Woman and Road

King of the Widow-Killers

The Lucky Status Symbol

The Betrayers Out!

Deeper Than Blue

Time Within Memory

Shokichi Shimamura

Internees of Kampili

The Battle of Kawanakajima

The End of a Day

Darkness at Noon

Hooligans on Buggies

The Revelation of a Geisha

Pigs and Battleships

The Most Beautiful Day of My Life

Clothes of Deception

The Start of Life

The Seburi Story

Daughter of Time

Fireworks Hand 2

Faraway Tomorrow

A Pool Without Water

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes

Did the Red Bird Escape?

Stolen Pleasure

Zenkichi Segawa

Yokohama BJ Blues

Restaurant's Owner

Wait for Tomorrow

Inosuke Uematsu

Intentions of Murder

Tales of President Mito

President Toyotomi

Strange Affinity

The Young and Bad

Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers

Nippon no obaachan

Tower of Lilies

The Fall of Teenager

The Boy Who Came Back

Afternoon Affair: Rear Window

Shiawase wa doko ni

The Gate of Youth Part 2

The Irresponsible Fool

Samurai from Nowhere

Nikoyon monogatari

The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro

Tora-san, the Expert

Tora-san's Dream of Spring

The White Orchid

Who Will Judge Me?

The Erotomaniac Daimyo

Sakura-tai Chiru

Bartender (segment 1)

The Street Without Sun

Song of the Spring Pony

Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle

The Pornographers

The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow

Dedication of the Great Buddha

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

The Beauty and the Dragon

Kokoro no sanmyaku

Lucky Dragon No. 5

A Killed Stewardess: White or Black

Detective Machida

Kiri ni Kieta Hito

Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo

The Cards Will Tell

A Woman’s Uphill Slope

Wakai hito-tachi

The Tale of Genji

Gokudô Petenshi

A Cheerful Yakuza

Chikuhō no kodomotachi

My Hometown is the Wild West

どん底だって平ちゃらさ

Futaridake no taiyō

Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman

Police Precinct Part 17

Profound Desires of the Gods

The Man from the Moon

The Valley Between Love and Death

Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy

Heat Wave Island

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